Governments foster very close alliances with the pharmaceutical industry but just how close has always remained a closely guarded secret. This has all changed however, after it was announced a new telephone hotline directly linking the pharmaceutical industries and other leading companies to government ministers has been set up.

Over the last few weeks the HPV vaccine Gardasil, has been a number one topic dominating the media headlines.

Katie Stephen has been left permanently and profoundly deaf in her left ear as a result of receiving the now banned MMR vaccine Pluserix. Despite her injury however, Katie has been refused compensation for her disability because the VDPU deems her to be less than 60% disabled.

The National Autism Association is having Dr Andrew Wakefield speak at their forthcoming conference about his new book which is to be released in the spring.

The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism.